We will remember them….
Leica M9; Summicron 35mm; VSCO
Lerouge 6×6 Pinhole Camera; Kodak Portra 400
Lest We Forget….
Tag: England
Auntie Londa….
Auntie Londa and Super Allen came visiting….. (more of him some other time)
Leica M9; Summicron 90; VSCO
Salford Quays
It’s changed a little bit since my first visit in the 1980s…..
Leica M9; Summilux 50; Lightroom
Week 52 – Mike…
Week 47 – Neil…
It didn’t seem a day since we last met….
Week 44 – Safiya….
Week 37 – The Carrolls
…or happy families!
Leica M2
Elmar f=5cm 1:2.8
Kodak T-Max 400
Week 2 – Hassan….
It’s always good to get home for a few days, especially when you get to meet up friends you’ve not seen for a long time.
Thanks for the lovely evening and of course the excellent food!
Fujifilm X-Pro 1
Funjinon 35mm f1.4
Aperture and NIK
Week 25 – Brick Lane
We went for a curry down Brick Lane, I think my Jalfrezi days might just be over……!
Fujifilm X100 Fujinon f2 23mm Aperture and NIK
Week 47- St. George
Fancy going out in Berlin of an evening and meeting up the English patron saint St. George!
Week 3 – Lytham and St-Anne’s-on-Sea
This was taken whilst we were still in England during a very enjoyable day trip to Lytham St Anne’s. We especially appreciated the excellent fish and chips and the chance to play football on the beach, two things that are a rarity for a family living in continental Europe.
Week 32 – Sanssouci Rose
This was shot during a rainy Sunday stroll through Sanssouci…..
f/4 1/125 ISO 400 @30mm
Week 30 – Muffer
This was taken in Rhosneigr (Anglesey) on the last evening of our holiday in Wales.
Thanks once again for everything!
f/25 1/250 ISO 400 @17mm (Two remotely triggered strobes)
Week 29 – Coming Home
Some of you might have guessed that the project has not died, moreover everybody is entitled to a bit of a holiday sometime.
After driving back through Germany and the Netherlands this was the view that greeted us on the Stena ferry taking us home.
There will be more to come over the next few days to catch up.
f/16 1/60 ISO 400 @17mm
Week 28 – Don’t you just love blondes…….
and this one is a very special example…… meet the aptly named Bonny.
She is a very obedient, patient and easy going girl, quite prepared to have her pictures taken in the rain sitting next to her favourite treat without complaint.
A real low maintenance girl……..
f/4 1/80 ISO 100 @30mm
Week 27 – The Saale
After a short weekend break in the south of the country, this week’s post is centred around the river Saale.
As we have now reached halfway on the photographic journey through the year 2011, this week’s entry is interactive. All those entering the poll (see below) have the chance to become the lucky winner of a once in a lifetime prize.
So here goes:
The first two were taken directly on the banks of the Saale River in Hirschberg (Thuringia). This Bench is the longest to be cut from one log (according to the Guinness Book of Records), and seats approximately 97 people depending on which nationality you are.
f/7.1 1/250 ISO 400 @17mm
- Two Generations
f/5 1/500 ISO 400 @34mm
- Hirschberg
The third picture was shot in Burgk (Thüringen) and shows the new tower (42 metres) with views over the river Saale, the Castle and the surrounding landscapes.
f/8 1/500 ISO 200 Pol. Filter @17mm
- Saaleturm Burgk
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Week 26 – Kim Wilde and the Siblings
The Economist was recently titled “The man who screwed an entire country” accompanied by a picture of Silvio Berlusconi. In Potsdam it isn’t a single man but more a political morass of people who were on the payroll of the regime before the fall of the wall. One of the latest victims has been the local public services company which hosts the annual music festival in Potsdam. This year’s roll call included Simple Minds, Robin Gibb and Kim Wilde.
The first shot was taken as a candid during Kim Wilde’s “Cambodia”. My covert skills obviously leave a lot to be desired as my subjects quickly spotted my intentions. The second shot was taken with their kind permission.
My thanks go to these unknown siblings on a bench.
f/4 1/25 ISO 800 @50mm
f/5 1/8 ISO 1250 @30mm
Week 25 – Verena and Paris
This week’s picture is a tribute to a great Frenchman, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry both an aviator and a children’s author. Second only to that man Eric in French history…..
This was shot with kind permission of Verena under the plaque commemorating Saint-Exupéry in the Panthéon (Paris) during a recent business trip.
f/5 1/125 ISO 800 @29mm
- Verena in the Panthéon (Paris)
Week 24 – Oma (Hamburg)
This is Oma (Grandma) in the Stadtpark in the beautiful city of Hamburg.
She says “the best years were my thirties”,
My reply “unfortunately mine are all but gone!”
“You’ve still got your forties to come!”
That’s all very well but if the thirties were the best years, where do we go from here? They say the old thirties are the new fifties. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
P.S. she’ll be ninety-three this year so she ought to know (she’ll kill me if she reads this).
f5.6 1/100 ISO 400 @44mm
Week 23 – Rainy Milano
This is Uli, my colleague on a very wet day in Milan. We went from a glorious nearly 30°C in Berlin to a miserable 18°C and rain in Milan. Still I got to see the San Siro from the outside so all in all not bad for a day’s business trip.
The first picture (above) is a crop of the second (below), as usual I couldn’t decide so I’m hedging my bets once again.
Both (of course) f4 1/1250 ISO 400 @30mm
Week 22 – Schloss Lindstedt
as above ………
f8 1/50 ISO 800 @50mm
Week 18 – The Lady by the Lake
…… on a sunny May afternoon in Neuruppin (1923).
f4 1/800 ISO 200 @19mm
Week 13 – Beer Benches to You!
And lots of them!
Apparently the official translation is “Ale-Bench” although I’ve never heard of this expression and I find the literal translation of “Bierbank” somehow more pleasing, even if it isn’t correct.
Sunday evening and the very last minute, with the inspiration once again coming from elsewhere (the usual source). All rather hurried in every respect as well, sorry for that and I hope you like it anyway.
f 8 1/5 ISO 200 -1 ev 26mm
Week 7 – The Expatriate
I finally found a bank with someone on it.
This is Pete, he’s the gentlest soul you’ll ever meet.
f5 1/160 ISO 100 19 mm
Week 5 – Green and Grey
It’s nearly twenty years ago since I first heard this song with a very good friend of mine travelling to his home in a small German town on the Polish border. Being six months into my year abroad at the time, it reminded me very much of my own home in the North West of England.
Today I see the song in a slightly different light…. guilty as charged? I don’t really think so, this isn’t the land of gold and poison, neither do the palm trees grow here naturally. It is nevertheless a very different place from “that” town, which conversely does not mean that I don’t look frequently behind me, to “my” valley of green and grey.
For those interested:
Photographically speaking I’m not really sure I like this weeks entry (colour key is out and my processing skills need to be honed), but it does partially summarise this place where I live today, particularly, and if not only, at this time of year.
f10 1/40 ISO 400 17mm
Week 2 Potsdam – “The-Bread-Roll-Run”
I think you may have to get used to a number of these banks being within the boundaries of the city of Potsdam, as well as being taken at the last possible moment during the week.
The more observant of you will have noticed that this was taken on a Sunday, hence it was taken on the first day of the new week. This is correct, unless you live in Germany, where the first day of the week is a Monday. Although I always mutter that this custom is incorrect and probably goes against some international (most probably European Union) law, it certainly worked to my advantage this week.
To those readers used to my rants on this subject and the mixing up of commas and full stops in the German numerical system I have this to say:
“Was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern.” Konrad Adenauer (First German Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany)
This roughly translates as:
“Who cares what twaddle I have spoken in the past” A rather novel admittance for a politician I think.
That does not go to say that I will in future condone either of the above errors.
The image was taken on my Sunday “Bread-Roll-Run” with the kids, whilst their mother idled, well deserved I might add, in her warm and cosy bed.
We’ve had mild weather with rain over the past few days, which has brought the remnants of the New Year’s celebrations to the surface as well as preserving patches of dirty snow.
A picture fitting for the time of year I think.
Week 1 Dallgow Döberitzer Heide
“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.” – David Bailey – In “Face,” (London), Dec 1984.
It is with this in mind that we set off on our 53 week photographic journey. There are few things more ordinary than a bank, so in the hope that not all the images presented are just ordinary, let’s get started.
It was one of the those wonderful Winter afternoons that you get when the easterly winds blow across the North German plains making the air dry, crisp and very cold. We were out with the kids to see how the wild bison, horses and reindeer fared in the conditions. As the winter sun started to set I came across this makeshift bench.
It was my first bank of the year.
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